On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 18:39 -0800, jdow wrote:
It needs Archive::Tar?
Apparently so... ["It" being part of spam assassin.]
How are you installing it?
It was the default installation that came with FC5, plus any updates
that might have happened in the meantime.
On other boxes I had decided not to bother installing spam assassin, and
until recently didn't use it. Evolution is painfully slow when it does
*ANY* filtering, and five spams a day versus nearly 200 non-spams a day,
meant that manual deletion isn't much of a chore. And there's something
rather satisfying about saying, "Die you spam, die!," as you hit delete.
I just decided to try it out, to see how it does its tricks. And to see
if it's going to be a practical solution for a friend of mine who seems
to have the opposite spam:ham ratio.
(I jettison the Fedora RPM and use cpan. That gives you a
"canonical"
install. Before removing the RPM save the
file /etc/init.d/spamassassin. It is useful when it comes time to make
spamd run.)
Hmm, I've not had the best of luck with Perl, in the past. I can
remember all the messing around I had to do to get the WDG HTML
validator installed, long ago (this needs that, ad infinitum, and *YOU*,
poor sod, had to manage it all by yourself).
I have a dummy spamassassin RPM that installs nothing other than the
knowledge that a dummy spamassassin is present to satisfy the YUM
monster.
Hmm, I had thought of that approach with one or two other stupidly
*REQUIRED* but unused RPMs in Fedora.
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